chapter 1

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  "a vision of red and yellow flashed upwards with a witch-like cry"
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  "no grown ups!"
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  "he was old enough...to have lost the priomient tummy of childhood"
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  "so deep at one end as to be dark green"
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  "we may stay here until we die" with that word the heat seemed to increase until it became a threatning weight"
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  the toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch